Tessio Fechine wrote:
Hello,
Hello,
I have a perl script that uses Net::LDAP to query an directory service. It
is invoked like this:
---
search.pl '(cn=peter*)'
---
Today I started another perl script that works on top of search.pl. It
opens search.pl with a piped open, and them process the results.
But I accidentally found that open acted oddly when '(cn=string*)' was
passed to it.
The possible bug is that when I pass a nonexistent file name fallowed by
'(cn=string*)' to open, it do not fail.
It sounds like you have a problem with the shell, not with Perl. Try
invoking your search program without getting the shell involved:
open my $search, '-|', 'search.pl', '(cn=peter*)'
or die "Cannot open pipe from 'search.pl' because: $!";
Also be sure to close the piped filehandle correctly:
close $search or warn $! ? "Error closing 'search.pl' pipe: $!"
: "Exit status $? from 'search.pl'";
John
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